Notes: Bettane & Desseauve 14/20 (Silver Medal, Prix Plaisir), Gault Millau 14/20
With a pale yellow color and straw-colored highlights, this dry white wine opens with citrus aromas, followed by notes of white fruit and jasmine. A lively wine with lovely acidity, yet round and full-bodied. A white wine to enjoy!
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Eye
Pale color with straw-colored highlights
Nose
Citrus aromas then blend with notes of white fruit and jasmine
Palate
The wine is both lively, with a lovely acidity, and full-bodied and rounded
Serve
at 10-12°C
Open
30 minutes before
Drink from
2013
Drink before
2014
Production
40,000 bottles
Food and wine pairings
Idéal sur les fruits de mer, des poissons grillés, des volailles...<br/>
Bettane & Desseauve
Rated estate (2021 guide) 1*Star (A high-quality, recommendable wine that lives up to what one would expect from its appellation(s))
About the estate:
Purchased in 1958 by Raphaël Gazaniol, a native of Morocco, the estate currently spans 180 hectares, 70 of which are planted with vines on the best-exposed plots. Thus, 32 different plots are vinified separately and are selected either for the base wine—already of high quality—or for the famous Cuvée Raphaël, a striking demonstration that a simple Bordeaux appellation can produce magnificent wines, or for the Cuvée Esprit, produced only when the vintage warrants it, made primarily from Cabernet aged for 14 months in new oak barrels. The production is rounded out by white Bordeaux and Bordeaux clairet. These are wines of character, balanced and charming. A cohesive range of unwavering consistency.
Guide Hachette des vins
Rated estate (2021 guide) Award-winning wines (This producer’s wines regularly receive awards from the guide)
About the estate:
On the border between the Gironde and Dordogne departments stands a château in the Périgord style, built in 1570 by Pierre de Parenchère, governor of the Sainte-Foy-la-Grande region, along with a vast vineyard (67 hectares of vines) that consistently produces high-quality wine. Raphaël Gazaniol, a winemaker who had returned from Morocco, acquired it in 1958, then passed it on to his son Jean and his granddaughter Julia. In 2005, a Swedish wine enthusiast, Mr. Landin, who also owned a vineyard in Montalcino, Tuscany, purchased the estate.
Guide des Vins Gault & Millau
Estate rated 1*Star (High-quality production)
About the estate:
Located not far from Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, in the far east of the Bordeaux region, the Château de Parenchère vineyard benefits from a clay-limestone terroir with a very high clay content. The approximately sixty hectares, planted with red grape varieties, are dominated by Merlot (50%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (40%)—the latter on the best-exposed plots—supplemented by Cabernet Franc. Planting densities are gradually being increased to over 5,000 vines per hectare. A white wine has been part of the range for the past few vintages.
Wine Enthusiast
Rated estate (2020 guide) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Wine Enthusiast)
Customer rating
2/5
based on 1 review
Review by Mr. ROMAIN D. Published on August 23, 2013
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